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Beginner

A - Resources  START HERE!
A01 - Illustrated Glossary of Drawing Words and Terms
A02 - Understanding Talent
A03 - Buying Drawing Supplies
A04 - Creating Your Own Drawing Space
A05 - Making a Portfolio
A07 - Making and Using a Viewfinder Frame
B - Learn to see
B01 - Drawing with Spaces
B02 - Shapes of a Duck
B03 - Simple Symmetry
B04 - Faces and a Vase
B05 - Blind Contour Drawing
B06 - Seeing Values
B07 - Grendel Gremlin
B08 - Seeing Shapes in a Photo of a Dog's Head
B09 - Speed Drawing by Wayne Olwagen
B10 - Seeing Shapes of a Horse's Head
B11 - Seeing Light and Shadow
C - Draw with lines
C02 - Three Families of Lines
C03 - Kayla the Koala
C05 - Linus the Lion
C06 - Bitty
C07 - Kira
C08 - Wanda
C09 - Starr Fish
C10 - Allie Alligator
C11 - Merbaby
D - Squirkling
D01 - Squirkling Values
D02 - Graduating Squirkles
D03 - The Pupil of Iris
D04 - Baby Curly
D05 - Sam & Samantha
D06 - Spruce Tree
D08 - Billy Blob Blended
D10 - Squirkling a Bumpy Texture
E - Perspective 1
E01 - Basic Perspective for Beginners
E02 - Overlapping Silly Faces
E03 - Simple Atmospheric Perspective
E04 - One Point Perspective
E05 - The Magic Ellipse by Cindy Wider
F - Hatching
F01 - Hatching Value Scales
F02 - Hatching Simple Mountains
F03 - Playing With Pencils
F04 - Graduated Values
F05 - Kobrah
F06 - Sketching Outdoors
F07 - Corny Conehead
F08 - Basic Contour Hatching
F09 - Graduations with Contour Hatching
F10 - Serene Scene
F11 - Tulip
F12 - Seahorse
F13 - Light on a Mug
F14 - Medieval Spoon
F15 - Wooly Woo Noo
G - Shading forms
G02 - Coming Out of the Dark
G03 - Smelly Spheres
G04 - Baldy Noears
G05 - Getting Started with Shading by Cindy Wider
G06 - Creating a Value Scale by Cindy Wider
H - Focus on people
H01 - Horizontal Facial Proportions of Adults
H02 - Proportions of a Hand
H04 - Drawing Eyelashes
H05 - Kim
H06 - Sketching from a Manikin
H11 - Drawing Lips
H12 - Long Straight Hair
H13 - Sketching Figures with Lines
H14 - Jamie
H15 - Baby Cameo
H16 - Brandon
H17 - Figure drawing basics
I - Cartoons & critters
I01 - Fluppy Puppy
I02 - Canine Noses
I03 - Eye of a Dog
I04 - Spotted Fur
I05 - Fuzzy Stripes
I06 - Simple Feather
I07 - Rocky Rodent
I08 - Tuttle Turtle
I09 - Kevin Bakon
I10 - Jumpin Jack
I11 - Siamese Tiger Fish
I12 - Dolly the Sheepish Sheep
I13 - Cuddles

Intermediate

J - Skills & secrets
J01 - 130 Tips & Helpful Hints UPDATED
J02 - To Blend or Not to Blend
J03 - Symmetry Secret
J04 - Transferring an Image by Cindy Wider
J05 - Focus on Focal Points
J06 - How to Use a Value Map
J07 - The Process of Working with a Grid by Cindy Wider
K - Perspective 2
K01 - Above, On and Below the Horizon Line
K02 - Drawing an Ellipse
K03 - Drawing a Cylinder with 2-Point Perspective
K04 - Two-Point Perspective UPDATED
K05 - Drawing Boxes with Two Point Perspective
L - Crosshatching
L01 - Crosshatching Values
L02 - Graduations with Crosshatching
L03 - Crosshatching a Value Map
M - Animals & fantasy
M01 - Fur on a Form
M02 - Feathers on a Wing
M03 - Detailed Dog Eye
M04 - Kitty
M05 - Black Widow
M06 - Bill the Cat
M07 - Swan
M08 - Panda the Shih Tzu
N - 3-D cartoons
N01 - Misha
N02 - Tux
N03 - Silly Cylinder
N04 - Emma Emu
N05 - Freaky Froggie
N06 - Bill the Corny Rattler
N07 - Hairy Harry
N08 - Precious
O - Caricatures
O01 - Gentle Giant UPDATED
O02 - Daniel
O03 - Kay
P - People
P01 - Ashley
P02 - Claudette
P03 - Facial Proportions of Babies
P04 - Guidelines for the heights of people
P05 - Clio
P06 - Eyelashes on an eye
P07 - The cousin of...
P08 - Adult Noses in Profile
P09 - Insights Into an Ear
P10 - Getting Under Your Skin – Facial Muscles
P11 - Forms of Adult Torsos
P12 - Adult Facial Proportions
P13 - Mouth of a Baby
P14 - Frontal View of Adult Noses
P15 - Drawing a Collage
Q - Places & things
Q01 - Dragon Egg
Q02 - Grape Smoothie
Q03 - Drawing Denim
Q04 - Bud the Rose
Q05 - Drawing Squirkles Around a Tree
Q06 - 3D Cylinder by Cindy Wider
R - Color basics
R01 - Primary and Secondary Colors
R02 - Oil Painting Brushes
S - Cartoons in color
S01 - Sunny Blue
S02 - Wooly Blue
S03 - Daisy Dodo
S04 - Chuck Chic
S05 - Flutterby

Advanced

T - Diverse animals
T01 - Rosey
T02 - Shadow
T03 - Hooter
T04 - Dandy
T05 - Isaac
T06 - Daphnia
T07 - A Zebra Named Spot
T08 - To Bee or Not to Bee
U - Faces & figures
U01 - Annie
U02 - Eye on Melissa
U03 - Claire
U04 - View of an Adult Arm
U05 - Leg and Foot
U06 - Facial Aging
U07 - Female Figure
U08 - Manisha
U10 - Joel Allan
U11 - Fabric of a Sleeve
U12 - Big Smile
V - Nature & still life
V01 - Light Beyond the Trees
V02 - Photorealism: Very Close Up
V03 - Photorealistic Dagger
V04 - Teddy Tink
V05 - Watery Reflections by Jeanette Jobson
V06 - Old Tree
V07 - Sunflower
V08 - Shiny Leather Boots by Cindy Wider
V10 - Little Urn by Cindy Wider
V11 - Medieval Arrowhead
W - Studio series
W01 - Karin
W02 - Bill View 2
W03 - Evie
W04 - Carved In Stone
W05 - Robby & Rob
W06 - Hallie Kate
X - Fantasy & fun
X01 - Dudley The Dragon
X02 - Lord Algernon
X03 - Lord Hans
Y - Creating in color
Y01 - Golden Rosebud
Y02 - Wobby UPDATED
Y03 - Designing a Tattoo of a Grease Monkey
Y04 - Values in Colors
Y05 - Painting with Acrylics: Part 1
Y06 - Painting with Acrylics: Part 2 NEW
Y07 - Painting With Acrylics: Part 3 NEW
Y10 - Winged Lightning NEW
Z - Drawing on the Masters
Z01 - Nose Study (Leonardo da Vinci)
Z02 - Examining Styles and Techniques
Z03 - Examining Lighting & Composition in Masters' Paintings
Z04 - Study of an Infant's Nose
Z05 - Study of the Head of an Infant
Z06 - Hatching with chalk
Z07 - Mona Lisa
Z08 - Study of Old Man's Face in Profile
Z09 - Study of a Girl's Face
Z10 - Study of a Flower
Z11 - Madison
Z12 - Sketch of a Youth

Teachers

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Brenda Hoddinott
Author of Drawing for Dummies, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Drawing People, Drawing Book 1: Getting Started, and owner of Drawspace.com
Cindy Wider
Author of Paint in Your Pyjamas
Mike Sibley
Author of the drawing bible Drawing from Line to Life
Lance Richlin
Author of Drawing Made Easy: Lifelike Heads
Diane Cardaci
Author of Realistic Textures, Flowers & Botanicals, and Drawing from Photographs, and co-author of Drawing Lifelike Subjects and Drawing Concepts
Steve Caplin
Author of several books including the How to Cheat in Photoshop series, Art and Design in Photoshop, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration, and Icon Design
Judith Campanaro
Author of Art for the Soul: the Healing Magic of Creativity